Shadow Clone Adept

[hivedragon]

I think the thrall herd is a really cool concept mechanically however this PrC basically requires you to be evil. Unlike leadership you are brain washing innocents to be your red shirt army. A way to avoid this is by replacing the source of you mooks to temporary magical clones of yourself like Naruto does. I would add a BAB prereq and raise the BAB on this class to medium.

As this is clearly not a telepathic class, what class features would you replace with the powers the thrall herd normally gains?

[DracoDei]

Look at the spell Body Outside of Body from Complete Arcane if you can.

Also... just a sec... AH! Here we are:
http://forum.faxcelestis.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=123
That might be a good start, although that is more the decoy jitsu with the log than a clone jitsu equivalent.